[maddog91]

Im looking for awesome quotes..

I write them on my wall,bathroom mirror and **** and just read em when in need..
What's everyone's?

One of my favorites
"Worry about whats most important to you. Dont let anyone or anything HOLD you back from whats most important to you right now. People getting mad at you is temporary but LOSING what you love is forever"MR

[maddog91]

nothing =-(

[Mike.Sen]

There's an identical thread in the phi/rel section. And if you want a ton, just search, there's been quite a few threads I suspect of the same topic, in lit, film, and phi sections.

[topgogogo]

Every person has two education, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.

Edward Gibbon

[Serj]

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[1954 Les Paul]

"As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil, for I am the meanest mother ****er in the whole valley"- George S Patton...I think

[Mike.Sen]

I read that one on a zippo engraved by a Vietnam GI, but didn't know it was Patton. Now I'mma look that up, nice to see an author for a change on that one.

Technically speaking, a great one I have always called up:
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." (John Dewey) has always kinda been a pseudo-credo for me, but I try to plan my life by these three (And more of course):

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
T.E. Lawrence

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
Sir Winston Churchill

"You got to be a spirit! You can't be no ghost."
From Bulworth (1998)

"Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible."
"Be realistic, ask for the impossible."


But let me say this: the (And more of course) parenthetical is really an underestimation. I pride myself in a mental database of quotes that I frequently pull up in casual conversation.

[protokid1453]

"The orc that one sees is more dangerous than the troll that one fears."
LOTR

[Mike.Sen]

Really? You're favorite quote is from LOTR?

I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that, and at least you're not pulling something highly cliche that everyone's heard a thousand times, but I didn't expect any LOTR quotes out of this thread.

[Pl0x]

Peter Kropotkin

“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.”

Baruch Spinoza

"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."

[protokid1453]

Originally Posted by Mike.Sen

Really? You're favorite quote is from LOTR?

I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that, and at least you're not pulling something highly cliche that everyone's heard a thousand times, but I didn't expect any LOTR quotes out of this thread.

Can't say it's my all-time favorite... but won't bother spending time figuring out which one really is.

[GATGAThabitat]

“No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver”- Kahlil Gibran

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. “-Henry Ford

”The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.”-George Bernard Shaw

” To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.”-Og Mandino

” Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.”-Nathaniel Emmons

“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”-Charles Darwin

had to do a paper on quotes got those from that

and the ones in sig

[brainvictim]

Here are 2 of the ones that I enjoy.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
- William James-

Fourteen hundred miles I'm going nowhere,
And every single town looks the same,
Well I make friends and I lose friends,
The vicious circle never ends,
As long as I've got whiskey I'll be o.k.
-Dragstrip Riot From the Song - Waste-

[IoNxRoCkEr]

sig

[SmArT-SpOrKs]

One that has gotten me through:

"Don't Panic."

-Douglas Adams

[topgogogo]

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

[Mike.Sen]

"All the stores will open up if you will say the magic words. The magic words are: Up against the wall mother****er this is a stick up!”
-Leroi Jones AKA Amiri Baraka

[Mike.Sen]

What, I scare all the white people away?

[theycallmenacho]

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.
-Robert Frost

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
-Bob Dylan

[goats_896]

"Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen"

Roughly translated: "Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people".

Written before the Nazi Regime...predicted the holocaust essentially "Christianity - and that is its greatest merit - has somewhat mitigated that brutal German love of war, but it could not destroy it. Should that subduing talisman, the cross, be shattered, the frenzied madness of the ancient warriors, that insane Berserk rage of which Nordic bards have spoken and sung so often, will once more burst into flame. This talisman is fragile, and the day will come when it will collapse miserably. Then the ancient stony gods will rise from the forgotten debris and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes, and finally Thor with his giant hammer will jump up and smash the Gothic cathedrals. (...)
Do not smile at my advice -- the advice of a dreamer who warns you against Kantians, Fichteans, and philosophers of nature. Do not smile at the visionary who anticipates the same revolution in the realm of the visible as has taken place in the spiritual. Thought precedes action as lightning precedes thunder. German thunder is of true Germanic character; it is not very nimble, but rumbles along ponderously. Yet, it will come and when you hear a crashing such as never before has been heard in the world's history, then you know that the German thunderbolt has fallen at last. At that uproar the eagles of the air will drop dead, and lions in the remotest deserts of Africa will hide in their royal dens. A play will be performed in Germany which will make the French Revolution look like an innocent idyll." --both from Heine

"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today... is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is simply what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable"
--Brennan Manning

[babsa_90]

My favorite quote is from a book i read from the Ender's Game series. I'd seriously recommend the series because it is a good read and very thought-provoking.

"Our ends do not erase our beginnings."

The quote is significant to me because i, as well as many other people, wonder what the purpose of life is and question it's significance. I put this quote up as my senior quote and i had a lot of people telling me how profound it was and whatnot.